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Experienced with r17749.

I started playback by selecting the first file in a directory (so that the playlist was created ‘on the fly’). All files are mp3’s encoded at 128 …(don’t remember the unit).

There are 18 files in the directory (it’s ‘Chess’ by Andersson & Ulvaeus).

The last track was playing when playback stopped. There were still 1:28 in the track to play.

Player still reacted to some key presses (backlight went on). I tried to shut the player down. The splash ‘Shutting down…’ appeared but the player didn’t shut down.

It seems that this bug only shows up if the playlist is long enough since I didn’t experience it when I started a directory with the third from the end file.

Observed with the SVN revision 12728

How to reproduce:

1. Call up the main menu and go to ‘System’. At the top, the menu title ‘System’ is displayed with the user selected font
2. Position the cursor on ‘Version’ 3. Press RIGHT (RB logo with the version number at the bottom is displayed) and after one second press LEFT.

Now I’m back in the ‘System’ menu (as expected) but the title ‘System’ is displayed with the system (and not user selected) font

Model: iriver H120, Build: 2006-09-01 17:59, Default settings

Installed the build (settings were reset since the settings version was changed)
Changed file view to ‘All’ Went to ./rockbox/fmpresets, chose a preset file → radio is activated
Changed to preset mode
Pressed NAVI → station list displays
* Pressed DOWN → * the cursor doesn’t move *
Pressed DOWN once more → cursor moves
Left station list screen
Pressed NAVI → station list displays
* Pressed UP → * the cursor doesn’t move *
Pressed UP once more → cursor moves

The bug can be reproduced with the build CVS-061118 and a MP3 file with 128kbps and 44100 Hz (created with LAME encoder through CDEx GUI).
Device: Iriver H120.

How to reproduce:

1. Start a song (song A). I used a song of about 3 min length.
2. Wait until it’s come to about 10 secs before the end. You can also use fast forward button to faster get to this point.
3. Wait until it gets to 2 or 1 or 0 secs before the end (I use the remaining duration in WPS). WIth 3 secs before the end, the error does not occur.
4. Press left. This should start the song A from the beginning since it’s still displayed in the WPS.

However, the next song (song B) starts. If the remaining time was 2 secs it goes down to 0. But the WPS still displays the song A. Progress bar and time in the WPS are frozen at the end of the song A (e.g. remaining duration is 0:00). After pressing NAVI (which displays the file browser), the cursor is on the song A. Pressing PLAY (cursor has not been moved) gets back to WPS. There, the song B with correct progress bar and time indicators is displayed.

Here is also the configuration file (exported just before submitting this bug report) – in order to avoid many questions about the settings.

To reproduce the bug, do the following:

1. Switch the DAP on
2. Start music playback (MP3 file in my case)
3. Wait about 5 sec
4. Goto WPS context menu (on H120: hold NAVI pressed), and then to the pitch screen
5. Change pitch value to 105%
6. Go back to the WPS
7. Jump to the start of the song (on H120: press LEFT)

Expected: playback starts from the beginning of the song with the new pitch

Observed: no sound, progress bar and elapsed time are advanced at approx. double speed. If you again go to the pitch screen and change the pitch value, the sound immediately appears again.

How to reproduce:

1. Go to the FM radio screen
2. Bring up the main menu
3. In the main menu, select ‘Now playing’ or ‘Resume playback’

Expected: FM screen is shown
Observed: DAP tries to start MP3 playback

…which will result in a shorter battery life

How to reproduce:

1. Call up the main menu
2. Select ‘System’ 3. Select ‘Version’ 4. While the logo is displayed, press STOP

After that, the LCD backlight won’t go off even if it’s configured to do so in the settings.

I think, the reason is that in credits.c, lines 49-50, the backlight timeout is not set back if the plugin is stopped before the name show has started.

If there is no current playlist (e.g. a dynamically created playlist has been played to the end), selecting "View current playlist" in the menu does nothing. Either the menu entry shouldn't be present then or (better IMHO) a splash should be displayed stating that there's no playlist to view.

Observed with the build r13130

The comment field in the attached file should be “ÄÖÜäöüß” (German umlauts; the problem also occurs when e.g. cyrillic letters are used). But in “Show ID3 Info” screen it is shown as in the attached image. The font used is nimbus-14, it contains the appropriate glyphs (so it’s because of the bad font).

I don’t know whether this is a problem with ID3 reading or just displaying.

Observed in r14585.

I have icons disabled (don’t want to waste the screen space). When I go to the “files to clean” screen of the disktidy plugin, selecting entries does not mark/unmark them in any way. So I can’t see what files are selected for cleaning.

Tested on H120, r17595

The patch adds the comments clarifying the copyright and the license of the font nimbus-19

Sansa e280 with FM tuner, r19871

My settings are:
- status bar: no
- FM stations file is selected
- start screen: File Browser

How to reproduce:
1. switch the player on
2. bring up the main menu and select FM radio

At the top of the screen there is the rest of the previous screen.

There is a similar bug report:  FS#9817 

Sansa e280 with FM tuner, r19871

My settings are:
- status bar: no
- the WPS used is very simple, it does contain the %we tag to switch the status bar on

But the status bar is not shown in the WPS

Here is the WPS I use:
%we

%ac%s%?ia<%ia|%d2>
%ac%s%?it<%it|%fn>

%al%pc%ac%pp/%pe%ar-%pr
%pb

%ac%s%?It<%It|%Fn>

r19871, Sansa e280 with FM radio

An FM stations file is set. Go to the FM screen. It should be possible to go to the next/previous station with RIGHT/LEFT. But pressing the buttons does no have any effect. The station is not switched.

r19933: the lamp plugin can only be left via shutdown (long press of POWER), at least on my Sansa e200. All other buttons are ignored.

BTW: there is the patch FS#8934 that implements switching the lamp on and off. Why isn’t it committed?

The problem occurs with r19974, at least in the simulators for e200 and h120.

I use the following WPS code which can be used with many fonts:

%we

%ac%s%?ia<%ia|%d2>
%ac%s%?it<%it|%fn>

%al%pc%ac%pp/%pe%ar-%pr
%pb

%ac%s%?It<%It|%Fn>

Now, how to reproduce:
1. Start playing a file
2. Go to the main menu, theme settings, and select another font (different height) (the file is still playing)
3. Leave the menu, go back to the WPS

The WPS is drawn using the new font, but the progress bar is shown at the old Y-coordinate. “Playing” the WPS file (which is in use) again brings it to the right position again.

In the e200 v1 simulator, if I position the cursor on a long name in the file browser, it does not scroll. This happens in r20829. With r20828, everything works as it should. Hence r20829 must have introduced a bug.

I have not tried whether the same happens on target.

Set the following settings:

‘Show icons’ in the theme settings to “No” ‘Show icons’ in the playlist viewer settings to “Yes”

Under this circumstances, I’d expect the marker of the current song in the playlist to be shown. The same for the marker of the moved song (while moving a song in the playlist). But the markers are not shown.

Tested with r21166 (not the latest today, but I think there were no code changes in this area)

Just so that it doesn't get forgotten: the keymap table for the WRS in the manual is screwed at some places. This is because there are some additional '&' and '\\' that cause wrong table rows to appear.

I might have a look at this later but would also be glad if someone else could do this.

The wrong places are in the file manual/main_menu/recording_screen.tex, seen in r32414.

File manual/main_menu/fmradio.tex, line with "The FM radio has the ability \opt{recording}{to record and } to"

I think, the space between the "and" and the closing brace should be removed as it causes too much space in the PDF. I.e. it should read "\opt{recording}{to record and} to"

I don't have SVN access now, so I thought I'd rather file this bug report.

Seen in r23799.

File manual/main_menu/fmradio.tex, r23817: "At this point, you will switched". "be" after "will" is missing.

Again: I have no SVN or IRC access, hence the bug report.

When I start the simulator for sansa e200, the screen goes black after some seconds of inactivity. When I then press buttons, the screen does not turn on, i.e. it remains completely black.

Seen with r24075. I suspect that the bug was introduced in r24042 and its companions.

I've seen some comments about the reason and a possible fix in IRC but have not tried them out.

This is just a reminder: with r24615 two new audio file formats are supported. They should be mentioned in the manual, appendix A.2 ("Supported audio formats")

The subject tells it all. The tag itself was introduced in r23207 on Fri Oct 16 21:14:33 2009 CEST. Wasn’t it a rule that with a feature also the manual should be updated?

See the subject. The tags were introduced in r24917.

The tag was introduced in r20753

Seen in r25280.

The descriptions says:

Track is ending. An optional number gives how many seconds the tag remains true for after the start of the track.

But shouldn't it read: "An optional number gives how many seconds before the end of the track the tag becomes true"?

The hotkey feature (introduced in r25414) is not described in the manual

Seen with r25455 on Sansa e200 v1

Display the hotkey assignments (menu Settings→General Settings→Hotkey→View Hotkey Settings). The items in the displayed list do not scroll so that if the function name is long it’s not possible to read all of it.

The title says it all. It'snot a driver and hence should be moved to another subdir.

And the function is_diacritic should return a bool, not an int.

The tag was introduced in r25826 – again without even trying to update the manual!

This probably belongs to the section about defining viewports, i.e. to the files manual/advanced_topics/viewports/XYZ-vp-syntax.tex. As of now, it says that only the system and one user selected font are possible.

I use sim build for iriver H120, r28922

When I run the disktidy plugin, change the settings (what files to clean) and quit the plugin (without performing the clean itself), I get the error message that the config file could not be saved.

I tried to investigate the problem, some findings are at http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20101228#22:07:08

But I could not get through the forest of all the defines for the file function.

See also http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20101229#11:41:04

This happens on my Sansa e280v1 with r31634-120108

I wanted to record something using the inbuilt microphone. The menu "RB Info" tells me there is space on the internal card:

132MB/7.45GB

When I start the recording, and then stop it while the WRS screen shows about 50KB, I get the message "Disk is full. Press PREV to continue."

After that, there is no recorded file. (The file should be created in the root directory of the internal card; WRS shows "Filename: /./R_MIC…")

But there IS space on the card! I could copy a file (via USB) of size 100 KB without problems.

So I think something is fishy in the recording code.

Is this somehow related to  FS#7721 ?

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As of build of Apr 01 2006, there is an option (in the ‘recording’ menu) to activate the recording screen on start up (i.e. after the DAP is switched on). It would be useful if it’d also be possible to specify the FM Radio screen as the start up screen. I.e. we’d have the menu entry ‘Initial Screen’ in the ‘General Settings’ menu with three options:

- File Browser
- FM Radio
- Recording Screen

The two latter options should of course appear only on the platforms where they are available. On platforms where the both are not available, the whole menu entry ‘Initial Screen’ wouldn’t appear at all (since it would then have only one option to select). The logic in the order of the options: the first two are ‘play back’ options (→ produce sound, group them together), the third is recording (→ something different).

Setting ‘Show recording screen on startup’ to ‘yes’ would set the new option to ‘FM Radio’. Or, alternatively, the ‘Show recording screen on startup’ option would disappear.

Following would be nice: you press a special key and get the list of all possible keys (in the current context) with their meaning. This would help if you don’t know exactly what you can do in a screen.

Implement the "anti karaoke" mode. In karaoke mode, only the differences between left and right channels are retained, the "common" part of the left and right channels is cut off.

What I'd like to have is a mode where only the voice "in the center" is left and voices that are present only in the left or only in the right channel are cut off (or significantly lowered).

As of now, %cP produces “am/pm” and %cp produces “AM/PM” (lowercase produces uppercase and vice versa). I think this should be changed.

Another proposal: let’s make the RTC tags “atomic”, i.e. let’s write “%ca %cb” instead of “%ca bc”. The parsing will become simpler as well as handling as well as they will be more like other tags (each %-tag produces a piece of information and stands on its own). There are no other tags that require a terminating char.

It would be nice if I could jump to a certain folder using a bookmark. As of now, it’s only possible to mark a point in a song. The proposed feature would be handy in the following situation.

My music collection is organised as artist/album/songs (which is quite common) and I often listen to some artists/albums. I’d like to quickly jump to those folders without having to browse and scroll in the file browser. From there, I could quickly select the desired song.

As of now, I’ve just bookmarked a song in the folder of interest and also have activated the “Follow playlist” setting. I then resume the bookmark and continue browsing from the WPS. But this is not as nice as it could be.

Correctly handle files with long names containing non-latin characters (more precisely: files whose names, when utf8 encoded, require more than 255 bytes). This avoids player freeze when such files are present in the file system.

The patch does the following. When reading a entry for a file with long name, the name is first utf8-decoded into a temporary buffer. Then the check is made whether the content of the buffer would fit into the dir entry. If not, the long name is ignored and the short DOS name (which is OEM encoded) is used instead.

Beware: If this short name contains characters from the upper half of the code page, that name may appear with strange glyphs or empty character in the file browser. This is because Unicode characters 0×80 to 0x9F are control characters. They can’t be displayed.

I have some files with cyrillic characters in the tags. But I don’t like the unifont since it’s too thin for my taste. So I added cyrillic chracters to the my favorite font nimbus-14 (it’s thicker and hence easier to read). And while I was at it I also added some east european characters since they all look very similar. I have not added any chinese/korean/japanese glyphs.

There is another patch for nimbus-14 with cyrillic and chinese glyphs, but it was created automatically from some TrueType font so the symbols don’t look very nice. Here every symbol was “designed carefully.”

Here is a patch that adds the ‘Startup Screen’ option to the playback menu (General Settings → Playback → Startup Screen). Possible values are:

- File Browser
- FM Radio (only on devices where it’s present)
- Playback (formerly known as ‘Resume on Startup’)
- Recording Screen (only on devices with recording capability, formerly known as ‘Start Rockbox in Recording Screen’)
- Last Active Screen

The options ‘Resume on Startup’ and ‘Start Rockbox in Recording Screen’ have been removed.

Known issues:

1. The ‘Last Active Screen’ feature is not implemented yet, it’s equivalent to ‘File Browser’ for now (see file tree.c) – since I don’t know where is the best place to track the active screen.

2. Version of the settings structure is increased, so save your settings before installing this patch.

3. I’m not completely sure whether the ‘FM Radio’ option is implemented correctly, I used the code for ‘Recording Screen’ as a template.

So it would do no harm if a developer familiar with Rockbox structure would throw a critical look at it!

The lower left ‘curve’ should have a corner

First shot at nimbus-18 (my favourite shape). All basic glyphs have been designed, so the rest should be trivial. Markun, are you reading this?

Some changes to nimbus-12 and nimbus-14 that make glyphs more consistent within the font